Sunday, July 6, 2014

Blues Pills talk new album

Elin Larsson, singer for up and coming multicultural blues rockers BLUES PILLS, talks every song of the band's upcoming debut album in a new track by track video which also features short excerpts of every song. Check it out at: http://youtu.be/J-0JxpOo1dA

Recently the band announced their upcoming European headlining tour in support of the band's forthcoming self-titled debut album. The quartet will be supported by icelandic label mates THE VINTAGE CARAVAN. Produced by renowned Don Alsterberg (GRAVEYARD, HORISONT), »Blues Pills« is set to be released July 25, 2014 via Nuclear Blast.

The album is already being praised by pretty much every rock magazine out there and described as "the debut album of the year" (Boris Kaiser/ROCK HARD).

The band also released a workshop video feat. their gifted guitarist, Dorian Sorriaux, showing how to play parts of the first single, 'High Class Woman', off the band's upcoming self-titled debut album. Surf to http://smarturl.it/BPGuitarLesson

The first limited edition of »Blues Pills« will also include a special bonus DVD which will feature the band's entire gig at 2013's installment of renowned German "Hammer Of Doom" festival as well as a video interview with Streetclip.TV - see tracklist below. A teaser video for the DVD can be viewed at this location: http://youtu.be/sTnVPajBWHo

The ten tracks of »Blues Pills« will also feature a cover version of the CHUBBY CHECKER classic 'Gypsy'.

“It's a song everyone in the band liked and we used to play it on our soundcheck. Slowly it worked itself into our set list, and now it's going to be on our debut album as well. Back in the days lots of bands covered each other to honor the other artist, and they did it with their own touch on it. Some examples are, JIMI HENDRIX 'All Along the Watchtower', JANIS JOPLIN 'Tell Mama', 'Summertime' and 'Ball and Chain', or JOE COCKER 'With a Little Help From My Friends', everyone was doing it with the right reason. For us, we want to honor CHUBBY CHECKER and also bring it back to life by doing the cover version the BLUES PILLS way. Hopefully people like both versions and, yeah, it's just a killer tune.“ - BLUES PILLS